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On my way to go get rumbling.

Let's Rumble.

That's how I don't get us.

There's a shot cam.

Duckman.

And I hear the voice of longing.

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Where are they now?

Uh, oh.

I broke it.

Dave, could you give me the picture from Good Friday of the

the props that people organize Here's an archaeological site in Israel of the kind of Tomb that Jesus was buried in carved out of a cave in rock.

They would have been the entrance room, a body would be laid out on a on a table surface in the entrance room until it decayed.

And then at some time later, though, great would be opened up.

The bones will be collected in a phone box called an ossuary, and they would be placed in the back of the Tomb.

So this tomb could be used again and again, and again, and a family might on the tombs, their Joseph of Arimathea.

Laid Jesus in the Tomb like this and had a stone like that rolled in front in the stone falls into a little divot.

So it's Thursday and it's going to take a lot to open it up again.

So that's the story.

Let's pick it up.

Now, where the Easter Story happens.

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.

What I think about this first, verse of, what we're reading this morning, is to just recognize that for these women.

This morning was, as bad as it could be.

No. Wonder if you've experienced it getting as bad as it can be under, maybe, even if you came to church this day today feeling like it's as bad as it can be right now.

I think there's an interesting question when it's as bad as it could be, and that is, where is God.

Where's God?

When it's as bad as they can possibly get in the story, God is about to reveal something beautiful that he's doing.

They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

So, it starts out this this day was, as bad as it could be, they had hoped, they had believed that Jesus is the Messiah and at the end of the story is, he's going to be on a kingly throne of some kind raining in the world and that hasn't happened.

He's instead been turned over to kind of mob control and he's been crucified that was as bad as it could get.

But now it's gotten worse.

Because what's worse than the Lord?

You worshipped dying on a cross.

That his body would be defaced or vandalized or stolen and that's obviously what has happened.

They come to that tomb like the one we saw and somehow that stone is been rolled open.

They go inside to look there's that table and The body is not on that table.

This day was bad.

And before anything, good happens, if it has gotten worse.

Have you experienced that?

It was as bad as it could get.

You didn't think it could get any worse.

It got worse.

This is a little example, but it's just the one that came to mine.

You bring your car to the muffler shop and they can just hear what they say.

If you need a muffler 225 bucks.

You don't have $225.

So this is bad news.

I got to spend that kind of money.

And by the way, it's been a while since I bought a muffler, so my prices are too low, just Victim.

They haven't put it up yet.

So I put it up on the Hoist and then they come back and they say well actually You need an exhaust system from the engine all the way back.

And by the way, somebody seems to have stolen your catalytic converter and inserted a little pipe in there.

So there will be no re using your catalytic converter.

Do you need everything from the engine back?

Including catalytic converter?

That'll be two thousand bucks?

I'm about right?

Don't am I about right.

Anybody know saying you're like a car guy?

Okay.

This was in a much bigger scale that kind of day.

It was, it was bad.

When the day started, the first thing that happens is it gets worse, but then God shows up.

Well, they were wondering about this suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning Stood Beside them in their fight.

The women bow down with their faces to the ground.

But the man said to them, why do you look for the living among the Dead?

So, let's call this guy shows up part 1 scary, but kind.

If you, we still have a picture, one of these pictures.

If you have a picture at home of a fat, little baby angel.

Well, they're cute, but you didn't that picture of that fat.

Little maybe Angel didn't come from the Bible.

The Bible's picture of an Angel is usually the clothes, our shining.

We don't necessarily know very much more about how the angel looks.

But we know this universally people who made an angel are terrified.

So there are two men whose clothes shine like lightning soon that they're angels and the women who come in are petrified.

But then what comes out of their mouth is very gentle.

Figure ask a question.

If you're looking for somebody who's alive, why are you looking in a cemetery?

There's our on Northland Drive.

Running about like that.

Just up in a ways is Elmwood Cemetery?

Suppose you wanted to get together with a friend this week and you're on the phone.

And you're saying, hey, let's let's get coffee on Tuesday 10 in the morning.

Where should we meet Elmwood Cemetery?

Let's I'll meet you at how much you going to do that.

You go to Elmwood Cemetery to meet somebody to to visit the tombstone of a person you loved.

You certainly might do that, but you don't have a social visit with someone with whom you want to build a relationship at the cemetery so that it's a very gentle.

But provocative question, If you're looking for somebody who is alive.

Why would you come to the cemetery?

He is not here.

He has risen.

Remember how he told you while he was still with you and Galilee the son of man must be delivered over to the hands of Sinners, be crucified.

And on the third day, be raised again.

Then they remembered his were.

So, I'd like to call this guy shows up, part 2, and perhaps a good summary would be unbelievably believable.

Unbelievable.

Let's start with that.

Come on.

It's unbelievable.